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Census of Population and Housing, 1970 [United States]: Public Use Samples (ICPSR 18)

Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Summary:

This data collection contains 132 Public Use Microdata
Samples (PUMS) files from the 1970 Census of Population and
Housing. Information is provided in these files on the housing
unit, such as occupancy and vacancy status of house, tenure,
value of property, commercial use, year structure was built,
number of rooms, availability of plumbing facilities, sewage
disposal, bathtub or shower, complete kitchen facilities,
flush toilet, water, telephone, and air conditioning. Data
are also provided on household characteristics such as
the number of per... (more info)

This data collection contains 132 Public Use Microdata
Samples (PUMS) files from the 1970 Census of Population and
Housing. Information is provided in these files on the housing
unit, such as occupancy and vacancy status of house, tenure,
value of property, commercial use, year structure was built,
number of rooms, availability of plumbing facilities, sewage
disposal, bathtub or shower, complete kitchen facilities,
flush toilet, water, telephone, and air conditioning. Data
are also provided on household characteristics such as
the number of persons aged 18 years and younger in the
household, the presence of roomers, boarders, or lodgers,
the presence of other nonrelative and of relative other
than wife or child of head of household, the number of
persons per room, the rent paid for unit, and the number
of persons with Spanish surnames. Other demographic
variables provide information on age, race, marital status,
place of birth, state of birth, Puerto Rican heritage,
citizenship, education, occupation, employment status,
size of family, farm earnings, and family income. This
hierarchical data collection contains approximately 214
variables for the 15-percent sample, 227 variables for the
5-percent sample, and 117 variables for the neighborhood
characteristics sample.

Study Description

Citation

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Census of Population and Housing, 1970 [United States]: Public Use Samples. ICPSR00018-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1991. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00018.v1

Methodology

Sample:
Each 1970 Public Use Sample is a representative sample of
the records from the 1970 Census sample questionnaires. The primary
sample size is 1-in-100 or one sample unit (household, vacant unit,
or person in group quarters) for every 100 such units in the
population. Two long-form Census questionnaires were used in the
1970 Census: one for a 15-percent sample of the population, the
other for a 5-percent sample. Of the 1970 samples, three 1/100
samples were drawn from the 15-percent sample data, and three from
the 5-percent sample data, one for each of the three options for
geographic information: (1) county groups, (2) states, and
(3) geographic divisions with neighborhood characteristics. Any
one sample contains only one of these types of information.